No, I’m not saying the VMP Classics sound advice good as the One-Step MoFi Bon Dylan, definitely not! That, along with the One-Step of Thelonius Monk & Charles Mingus, as well as Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly MoFi 45RPM, and The Doors L.A. Woman 45RPM and Nat King Cole 45RPM are all my best sounding records in my collection in my opinion.
But I still rate a lot of other pressings 10/10 just for how amazing they sound, including the VMP pressing of Al Green’s Call Me! Errol Garner’s Magician is like a 10/10 for me too! That pressing sounded impeccable. If I was to compare to my best sounding records, they would be an 8/10 or maybe even an 8.5/10. Still though, I rate them 10/10.
This is how I see it: Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, Madvillain’s Madvillainy and The Smiths’ The Queen is Dead are all very strong 10/10’s for me! But you also have other 10/10’s, like Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love, A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory and Prince’s Purple Rain. But for me, they are a step below the before-mentioned 10/10’s. You know what I mean?
Like they’re all 10/10’s, but there are just some top-tier, the best of the best, 10/10’s with albums (all subjective I guess, but you know where I’m coming from).
Same case with the pressings, like Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus & Bon Dylan One-Step are like the top-tier 10/10’s! Then the Speakers Corner Carla Thomas’ The Queen Alone pressing is also 10/10, but it just scores a 10/10 for me!